A Petal man in custody and accused of robbing a Trustmark bank branch in Vicksburg a week ago now faces charges for more holdups.

Kevin Dale McCain, 48, in the Warren County Jail without bond, has been linked to a Jan. 25 bank robbery in Marshall, Texas, as well as an attempted bank robbery Jan. 28, in Bossier City, La., said Vicksburg Police Lt. Bobby Stewart. He also said McCain possibly is linked to a bank robbery in Mobile, Ala.

The charges followed “comparing evidence with authorities where the other crimes were committed,” Stewart said.

Similarities included the clothes and the type of notes passed to demand the money, Stewart said. Surveillance video provided further evidence, he added.

It was an image from the holdup at the bank branch at 3406 Halls Ferry that led to the initial charges against McCain.

By happenstance, he was arrested about two hours after the 9:40 a.m. Vicksburg robbery last Wednesday for traffic violations in Mendenhall, about 75 miles southeast of Vicksburg, and posted a $1,450 cash bond. Later, Officer Rita McNair saw a television news report that showed a photo of the robber here. When McCain returned to the Mendenhall Police Department to retrieve his impounded 2005 Nissan Sentra, he was taken into custody and held for Vicksburg authorities.

Stewart and two other local officers went to Mendenhall with a search warrant to look through McCain’s car and, later, his home in Petal.

There, they said they recovered evidence that linked him to the crime in Vicksburg.

McCain, also currently being held on a federal probation violation from a previous case, is believed to have acted alone and is not accused of displaying a weapon. Stewart said the suspect was apparently just passing through when he stopped to rob the bank. Police recovered some of the cash that was taken. Stewart said about $2,100 was taken.

Stewart said arrest warrants from Texas and Louisiana had been issued, and that McCain would remain in Warren County while those authorities traveled here to question him.